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Friday, January 29, 2010

IN HER SHOES: HHFITD in Costa Rica!

Hello Loves,

As most of you probably already know I’m back from vacation! Yesterday was insanely busy trying to prep for a client meeting, catch up on my emails and of course sneak in some blog reading! I missed you all!

Always the faithful blogger I made sure to take lots of pics in order to share some of fun in the sun.

So sit back, relax and enjoy a day in the life of me with a sunny background instead of the snow that I came home too!

Here is a little peek into where we stayed. This was right outside our room:

This was the hallway leading down the breakfast area and the beach!

The beginning of my mornings always started with a trip to the beach. I would settle into my lounge chair and just sit. It was delightful!

Usually while I was doing that Jon would venture off in search of a good fishing spot among all of these rocks.

Tamarindo, Costa Rica is a huge surfing community so the majority of the shops on their main street were surfing related.

Part of our Christmas gift was also a kayaking trip! It was lots of fun, but my arms are still sore from it!

{Jon asked me to turn around for a picture and apparently I thought this was the best way to it! :) }

During our kayaking trip we got to see some baby crocs, which I stayed far away from and Jon actually got to fish as well.

{Don’t worry he always catches and releases so this little guy went right back in the water.}

During one of our lunches in town at a place called, Nogui’s (Totally recommend if you are ever there. So yummy. I’m still dreaming of their pineapple pie. We ate their twice!) we saw Monkeys!

{The tree was full of them! There were even three little baby monkey’s playing around jumping from branch to branch.}

The restaurant was right on the water so instead of getting back to the B&B through town we took the beach route.

I know this is only suppose to an IN HER SHOES for one day, but I have more to share and since I’m the boss so to speak I’m going to add a few more pics! Hope you don’t mind.

On on last full day before we had to fly home we went to Rincon de la Vieja a park with four volcanoes and a waterfall. It was about 2 and half hours away, but totally worth it.

It was a day full of the things that Jon loves and terrifies me. We first went horseback riding (No pictures of this. It was an hour long and I’m pretty sure I just kept muttering OMG the entire time. It was a bouncy ride!)

The next thing was a sauna with the steam from the volcanoes and then a mud treatment. Sounds relaxing right?

Not when you are the one applying the mud yourself:

Then we got to sit by the sun and wait for it to dry. Of course what comes on must come off…

{There are showers with freezing cold water to take of the mud and if that’s not working they get with the hose! The more you scream the more cold water comes your way. I was soaked!}

After that we went down a 450 meter water slide. I hate water parks, amusement parks, because I’m a big scardy cat, but I figured when am I going to do this again so I said yes to everything! Sorry, but no pictures of this since both me and Jon did it so the camera did not come with.

Lastly was a zip-line tour. I had never done this before and I was under the impression that it was just a one time thing. You go up real high, get attached, zip down and done in minutes.

As I was getting geared up I asked the guide about how long it would take figuring 5 mins and I was met with an answer of an hour!!!! Duh Camila it is a zip-line TOUR meaning multiple stops. (10 to be exact!)

I still decided to do it because I’m all about being a DO-ER. Totally forgetting that I’m a bit scared of heights!

A little after an hour I was safely back on the ground and had to take a picture with my two guides that saved the day and caught me at each stop.

This trip was a lovely little get-away and one that me and Jon needed badly! Thanks again to my Mom, Dad, Ximena and Daniela for making it all possible!

Hope you all have a great weekend! I have loads more catching up to do and a trip to the Gift Fair this weekend! I’ll post pics of that on Monday!

Your pictures are amazing, and the trip must have been out of this world. Although that fish he caught... scares me just a little. Maybe it's the coloring. Haha! But thank you for sharing these beautiful pictures!

SO FUN! I went to stay close to Tamarindo when I went to Costa Rica - it was so much fun. We went zip lining as well and I had a blast. I wish I could have gone kayaking! This looks like a wonderful trip and your hotel was amazing!!!

What a fabulous Christmas present!!! This looks like such a wonderful trip and I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little envious ;) But you guys look like you had such a great time and I know you guys deserved it!

I love looking at all your pictures and you are super inspirational. What is funny is I hink I stayed at the exact hotel as you for my honeymoon back in February 2009 in Tamarindo. We were there for five days and LOVED it, loved that the beaches were never packed, tons to do and loveed the sun. We also hit up Moteverde and Arenal. Did you guys go anywhere else?

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